Dan Cody

Dan Cody (1857-) was an American multi-millionaire who made a fortune from the silver and copper mining.

Biography
Dan Cody was born in 1857, and he began to make money from several metal rushes in the American West (such as the Klondike Gold Rush), making a multi-million fortune after finding copper in Montana. In 1907, the young Jay Gatsby found Cody's yacht struggling during a storm in Lake Superior, so Gatsby climbed aboard the yacht and steered Cody to safety; Cody made Gatsby his assistant, and he took him on yacht journeys for 10 years. When Cody died of his alcoholism, Gatsby was cheated of his $25,000 inheritance by Cody's family, leaving him dirt poor once more.